Dork-tasticness of the day:
Final Jeopardy Topic: Medicine
(To Whit, Nehama and I simultaneously, synchronously exclaimed, "YES!....Finally!" Ah, the benefits of a hive-brain.)
final jeopardy question: this organism's gene are 2 parts pig, 1 part bird, and 1 part human.
answer: H1N1
H1N1 is a virus. Viruses are not alive, and are therefore not organisms. Suck it, Trebeck!
Organisms can loosely be described as, "Any living structure, such as a plant, animal, fungus or bacterium, capable of growth and reproduction." Source, Wikipedia.
The loosely-accepted 7 rules of life are:
Viruses arguably satisfy several of these requirement, but certainly not all. For instance, their ability to reproduce is solely reliant on host machinery: truly a non-autonomous being. Secondly, they do not possess a true chemotactic response to stimuli: they will bind receptors, but that is all they will do. Viruses do not "move." they have no propellant ability. They do not grow, but rather are assembled from component parts within the host, and expelled full-formed, much like athena from the head of zeus. Only this athena causes AIDS.
That is a short take on it. Viruses are pseudo-life, perhaps even proto-life. They exist in a realm intertwined with living species, but not autonomous living entities. Like I've said before: suck it, Trebek.
Regardless, I will quote the following blog, from which I obtained this picture, with the help of my friend google.
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Final Jeopardy Topic: Medicine
(To Whit, Nehama and I simultaneously, synchronously exclaimed, "YES!....Finally!" Ah, the benefits of a hive-brain.)
final jeopardy question: this organism's gene are 2 parts pig, 1 part bird, and 1 part human.
answer: H1N1
H1N1 is a virus. Viruses are not alive, and are therefore not organisms. Suck it, Trebeck!
Organisms can loosely be described as, "Any living structure, such as a plant, animal, fungus or bacterium, capable of growth and reproduction." Source, Wikipedia.
The loosely-accepted 7 rules of life are:
- Homeostasis
- Organization
- Metabolism
- Growth
- Adaptation
- Response to stimuli
- Reproduction
Viruses arguably satisfy several of these requirement, but certainly not all. For instance, their ability to reproduce is solely reliant on host machinery: truly a non-autonomous being. Secondly, they do not possess a true chemotactic response to stimuli: they will bind receptors, but that is all they will do. Viruses do not "move." they have no propellant ability. They do not grow, but rather are assembled from component parts within the host, and expelled full-formed, much like athena from the head of zeus. Only this athena causes AIDS.
That is a short take on it. Viruses are pseudo-life, perhaps even proto-life. They exist in a realm intertwined with living species, but not autonomous living entities. Like I've said before: suck it, Trebek.
Regardless, I will quote the following blog, from which I obtained this picture, with the help of my friend google.
"Alex Trebek is a game show host. He doesn’t know the answers to the questions he asks. Instead, he reads the knowledge off cards, cards handed to him by a sweating fat man in a small, small suit who gives him his lies in the darkness. Profane, undying darkness."
Technorati Tags: alex trebek, jeopardy, H1N1, lies, organisms
1 comment:
Yea, Trebek is a facade. There's a short story by David Foster Wallace called "Little Expressionless Animals" all about a contestant on Jeopardy and Trebek makes a few appearances. You should read it. Here, found it online:
http://www.parisreview.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2547
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